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This is a Meiji-era (1883) Japanese illustrated edition of the Xiaojing, the Classic of Filial Piety, published in Japan by Ōkawa Shingyoku with commentary attributed to Horinaka Tōshū, aimed at general readers. Each page pairs columns of woodblock-printed Chinese text with a small black-and-white scene of a robed scholar or figure set in an interior, garden, or stone courtyard. A designer could take the sparse linework, the strong dark ink masses of pine and rock, and the boxed text-and-image page layout as a model for print-based graphics.
